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$ perldoc -l Foo::Bar

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Re^2: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module
by philcrow (Priest) on Apr 09, 2007 at 13:54 UTC
    Yes. We use this in a shell function defined in .bashrc: 
    viperl() {
    vi `perldoc -l $1 | sed -e 's/pod$/pm/'`
}

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    which begins a vi session on the module in question so you can see if it has the code you thought it did.

    Phil

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Re^2: Perl One Liner to Check Location of a Module
by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 09, 2007 at 17:30 UTC
    If the module has both a .pod and a .pm, an undocumented trick is to say: perldoc -lm Foo::Bar and you get the .pm and not the .pod.

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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      I don't think it needs the -l in that case. 

      perldoc -m Foo::Bar

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